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Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power

Contributors:

By (Author) Stephen Greenblatt

ISBN:

9781784707606

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Imprint:

Vintage

Publication Date:

4th June 2019

UK Publication Date:

23rd May 2019

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

822.33

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

224

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 14mm

Weight:

164g

Description

An exploration of power in the plays of William Shakespeare that sheds light on our most urgent contemporary dilemmas. 'Brilliant' Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakespeare has no peer. 'Brilliant, timely' Margaret Atwood, on Twitter 'A scintillating book, uncannily illuminating about current politics, as perceptive about the victims of tyranny as it is about the tyrants themselves' Nicholas Hytner

Reviews

In this brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable study of Shakespeares tyrants and their tyranniestheir dreadful narcissistic follies, their usurpations and their craziness and their cruelties, their arrogant incompetence, their paranoid viciousness, their falsehoods and their flattery hungerStephen Greenblatt manages to elucidate obliquely our own desperate (in Shakespeares words) general woe. -- PHILIP ROTH
Brilliant, timely -- MARGARET ATWOOD, on Twitter
A scintillating book, uncannily illuminating about current politics, as perceptive about the victims of tyranny as it is about the tyrants themselves. -- Nicholas Hytner, former Artistic Director of the Royal National Theatre
Brisk and highly readable -- Jonathan Bate * New Statesman *
Brilliant -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *

Author Bio

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve- How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World- How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has edited seven collections of literary criticism.

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